MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 95 



On Tuup.r.oi.uji tuicolouum, &c. — I have sown seeds of TroptEolum tritb- 

 lorum in loam, and placed them in a pine stove, but could not get them to vege- 

 tate. I removed the pot into a hot-bed, but was equally unsuccessful. I then 

 took them out of the loam, rilled the pot with white sand, kept miist, and 

 placed it on the warm Hue of the pine-stove ; in three days the seeds germinated, 

 and as soon as I judged I could remove them without risk of destroying, I cure- 

 fully took them up, with as much sand as would adhere, and potted them singly 

 into small pots in a compost of equal portions of sandy peat and loam, and kept 

 them in the stove. They made vigorous plants in a short time. 



The following experiment with some strong tubers I had, which would not 

 push a shoot, was so successful, that I strongly recommend its adoption. I 

 made a small incision on each side of the tuber, and put in a small graft of a 

 shoot about an inch and a quarter long and then covered them with a bell glass ; 

 in about a fortnight it had united quite firmly, pushed rapidly, and thus having 

 a fine rooted tuber to start with, the plant bloomed vigorously that season. 1 

 have since employed the same means with T. biachyceras. tuberosum, Jarrattii, 

 and pentaphyllum, and succeeded equally well. 



Bristol, March 4th, 1842. Ci.kricus. 



The Guernsey Lii-v. — The Guernsey Lily is tender, a slight frost being suffi- 

 cient to injure the foliage, an event which is generally fatal to the bloom. It is 

 of great consequence to the formation of the flower-bud that the foliage, which 

 is produced in autumn, should continue in a healthy growing state during the 

 whole rainy season, until it is checked and finally dried up by the hot weather in 

 May and June. The plant then remains dormant till the month of September, when 

 the flowers begin to appear. It is only after particularly mild winters that they 

 are produced in remarkable abundance, the average number of flowering plants 

 having been estimated at 15 to 18 in !t hundred, and for some years it has not 

 exceeded half that quantity. Very little care is bestowed on the beds of 

 Guernsey lilies ; they are never manured, but merely weeded, and sometimes 

 slightly covered with sand; the warmest spots in the gardens are never allotted 

 to them, and they are usually found under apple-trees, or in other partially 

 shaded situations, not the most favourable to the growth of other plants. — 

 Duncan' $ History of Guernsey. 



FLORICULTURAL CALENDAR FOR APRIL. 



Plant Stove. — Still support the requisite degree of heat by fires at night, as 

 the plants will now begin to show their blossoms, which should ba encouraged 

 as much as possible at this season. Fresh air, when the weather is favourable, 

 is very necessary, and should always be admitted when required ; this will greatly 

 assist their flowering, and cause the new shoots to be strong and healthy. This 

 mouth is the most proper time to pot such plants as may require it, taking great 

 care to use such compost as is congenial to them. Any that do not require 

 shifting into larger pots may have the surface soil renewed with fresh compost, 

 which will greatly invigorate them, and also add to their neatness. The same 

 directions respecting watering and cleanliness may be observed, as given last 

 month. Still propagate all kinds of exotics by means of seeds, cuttings, layers, 

 or suckers, according to the nature of the different kinds ; insert them inputs, 

 and plunge them in hot-beds, which will promote their vegetating and rooting 

 quickly and certainly. 



Greenhouse. — These plants will now require large admissions of air at all 

 times when the weather is mild, for as most of them will now be shooting freely, 

 they must not be kept too close. The plants must now be looked over, to see 

 when water is wanted, and let all the plants be properly supplied therewith, as 



